In the Harry Potter film series, Crabbe was replaced by Blaise Zabini in the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The reason for this replacement was due to the actor who played Crabbe, Jamie Waylett, getting into trouble off-screen and being arrested for growing marijuana in his mothers London home in 2009. He pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis and possession of a knife and was sentenced to six weeks in a young offenders institution. Following his second arrest in 2011, Warner Brothers decided to remove him from the production of the final Harry Potter film, which led to the decision to replace his character altogether. In the book, Crabbe produces the powerful Fiendfyre that leads to his assumed death, but in the film, he is replaced by Zabini.