Harry Potter fans divided over what Dudley says in iconic scene after seeing Netflix subtitles

The Potterheads are fighting

Harry Potter fans like to think they know the films inside out. The true Potterheads have watched them that many times they can practically follow along word for word.

But despite this elite level of knowledge, there’s still room for confusion as it turns out they might not know the Wizarding World films as well as they thought.

That’s because Harry Potter viewers have been left divided over what Dudley says in an iconic scene after seeing the Netflix subtitles.

During Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, there’s a scene when the boy wizard is living in his little cupboard under the stairs when Dudley comes thundering down, excited for his birthday.

Who cares what he says? We wish he’d fall down. (Warner Bros.)

And the little sh*t decides to give a few extra stomps to wake Harry up as he shouts: “Wake up, Potter!”

Except not according to the subtitles, in which he actually says ‘wake up, cousin’, pouring sawdust onto Harry’s head – yeah, an absolute little sh*t of a character.

One person posted the finding to TikTok, asking what people thought the real line was.

Other social media users and Potter fans have been left just as bamboozled, flooding to the post in confusion.

One fan simply refused to believe the subtitle is correct: “It’s Potter. Ain’t no way Dudley called him cousin… cousin would imply Dudley claims him as family not as his live-in whipping boy.”

Others readily agreed, refusing to bow down to the tyranny of the subtitles when their ears knew the truth.

“I hear Potter. I don’t know why in the subtitle said cousin,” one said, as another said: “I always thought it was Potter too.”

The original poster replying: “Right? Maybe whoever did the captions misheard?”

Some users disagreed and said they could clearly hear ‘cousin’ opposed to ‘Potter’.

“It was always cousin,” one said, while another pointed out: “It says cousin.”

The heated debate continued on other social media sites too, with one Harry Potter fan taking to Reddit in their pained confusion.

They called out to fellow Redditors: “Does anyone actually know what he says? It seems like a stupid question but it’s quite hard to distinguish between ‘Potter’ and ‘cousin’ when they’re muffled by a staircase and it’s getting frustrating.”

“It’s cousin. If you particularly listen for the consonant in the second syllable, it’s clearly a ‘z’ sound like cousin and not a ‘t’ sound like Potter,” one user argued.