It may have been a shocking six years since the final Harry Potter movie was released oh, how time flies , but that hasn't stopped us wondering why Vincent Crabbe's character was replaced by Blaise Zabini in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2.
Credit: Warner Bros. If you've read the books, then you'll remember the scene when Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle fought Harry, Ron and Hermione during the battle of Hogwarts. So why was Crabbe, played by Jamie Waylett, replaced by Zabini in the film? As it turns out, Waylett was a naughty boy outside of the role, and his choices cost him his spot in the last part of the franchise. Marie Claire is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.
Related Content. The issue was that he had so much of the plant that he was accused of distributing said material. That case led to the young actor being sentenced to community service. Though no official statement was given from the producers of 'Harry Potter,' Waylett was unceremoniously dropped from the film schedule after his arrest. As it turned out, producers probably felt justified in their decision shortly after.
Because in , Waylett participated in the London riots and again faced a cannabis charge. Jamie was later sentenced to two years in prison, with his lawyer explaining that "Although he had the good fortune to be in the Harry Potter films, it turned out to be not so good fortune.
Rather than recast Crabbe so far along in the film series, producers opted to have another HP character take over the speaking parts of Malfoy's cronies without changing up the storyline too much. For the first time Crabbe defied Draco, stating " you an' yer dad are finished ," implying a great deal of knowledge regarding the Malfoy family's falling out of favour with Voldemort.
Crabbe then conjured Fiendfyre in an attempt to kill the trio, but he failed to learn how to stop it. It killed him and destroyed the entire Room of Requirement before he could escape. None of the students who escaped except for Malfoy and Goyle saw his death, and the others presumed that it killed him, as no one saw him leave the room. Ironically, his use of Fiendfyre also destroyed Ravenclaw's diadem , one of Voldemort's Horcruxes , due to the destructive power of the spell.
Ron reflected that such an action might have made him feel sorry for Crabbe's death if he hadn't been trying to kill them when he used it.
For his disobedience of orders during their final reunion which nearly cost Goyle's life and his own, Draco held the deceased Crabbe in low esteem. In , while talking with Harry at the Ministry of Magic , Draco revealed that he was always jealous about Harry having Ron and Hermione as friends while he had Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe was large and very fat, with a thick neck. He had gorilla-like arms, a flat nose, and wore a pudding bowl-style haircut. He was very mean and very stupid, which makes him little more than a "follower" of Malfoy.
However, in spite of his overweight, fat physique, he was an avid runner, as shown when he, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy and Goyle were running away from the Fiendfyre. Crabbe is told to have outstripped the rest of them, even Harry, who was very quick. Crabbe was entirely lacking in introspection or inquisitiveness, and was very greedy and gluttonous, eating at the feasts for longer than anyone and leaving with large loads of cakes to still be eaten.
He could be described as enormously fat and pig-like, like Dudley Dursley , but even more thuggish and stupid. Despite his large frame, Crabbe had a surprisingly soft voice, though he speaks so rarely that Harry never noted his tone of voice until Crabbe's last battle.
Crabbe seemed to be incapable of independent thought; he was generally told what to do by Draco , and both he and Goyle did so poorly in their O. Nonetheless, Crabbe was still depicted as slightly more intelligent than Goyle and in he seemed to quarrel with Malfoy for the first time, for a reward.
Slytherins are typically described as "cunning", though given Crabbe and Goyle's demonstrated low intelligence, it is likely that they were sorted into Slytherin due to their desire for power and their belief in blood purity , which are often considered to be other common Slytherin traits. It is also possible that they did not fit into the other houses as well as they fit into Slytherin, or that they requested the Sorting Hat to specifically place them there as Harry and Hermione did for Gryffindor.
Crabbe also displayed poor sportsmanship as a Quidditch player, as when playing Beater for the Slytherin Quidditch team , he spitefully sent a Bludger at Harry after the Snitch had already been caught during the Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor. Near the end of his life, Crabbe proved to be a deadly dark wizard , being able to cast the Unforgivable Curses with clear talent.
While he failed his Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, he excelled in the actual Dark Arts class , his thuggish sadism giving him the motivation to perform powerful curses on his fellow students and even becoming top of the class.
He also seemed to change for the worse, as he defied Draco knowing that the Malfoy family had lost its influence and prestige in both the wizarding world and Voldemort's eyes, and that nothing could be gained from being affiliated with them anymore. Furthermore, he was not above torturing and even attempting to kill fellow students.
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