Okay, and "enervate" isn't a French word, it's an English word I know she didn't major in English at university, but does she speak it
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You're not even actually right about that Multiple people have chimed in on this thread to point out "énerver" in French means "to annoy" or "to piss off" (as a slow drift from its original meaning of "to weaken"), not "to wake up" or "to energize"
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I don't speak French but I imagine it's a natural meaning drift from calling a conversation "enervating" to mean it's energy-draining in the sense of being boring and aggravating, much like this one is Like Colin Robinson the "energy vampire" from WWDITS
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Rowling actually uses a lot of French in her books.
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No, she really doesn't, in fact she makes a point of having French-speaking characters speak in an atrocious "French accent" eye-dialect for the sake of her presumed Anglophone audience
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