As the first year students sportively paraded into Honeydukes, they did not notice the Spartan and stolid cashier warning them of the specious Explosive Tarts. The tarts were so soporific that they caused the students to remain in a state of torpor until Hagrid called them.
sportive: frolicsome, playful
stolid: unemotional, lacking sensitivity
specious: deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
Spartan: highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere
soporific: causing sleep or lethargy
torpor: extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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