I generally don't mind about the spelling, either. In fact, having spent two years correcting my academic writing to US English, I find myself sometimes utterly at a loss to know how to spell words properly at all now. I had to look up 'fulfil' yesterday, just to convince myself that it really didn't need two l's.

Sometimes I don't even mind about the other stuff. I'll giggle at the pants (Draco in leather pants is something I'll always find funny, no matter how many times I see it). But part of me feels that these writers are entitled to have their play in the sandpit too. And if they're well-written (and sometimes even if they're not), I'll read them and enjoy them for what they are.

I think what irritates me most are those things where someone has obviously tried to get it right but just not quite managed it. People going to the loo for a shower, for instance. Or having scones for breakfast. Or eating shepherds pie for every single meal. Or speaking in mock cockney. It's like the girl with the Missing First Letters. Obviously she thought she was reproducing the French accent. Only she failed utterly and hilariously.