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Nick Frost Believes He “Manifested” His Harry Potter Role By Writing “Hagrid” 5,000 Times, Weighs in on J.K. Rowling Controversies

July 8, 2025  ·
  Raven Redgrave
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Hagrid in Harry Potter played by Robbie Coltrane - YouTube, Supercut Action

Nick Frost, best known for his work in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is set to portray Rubeus Hagrid in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot. However, he insists it was no mere choice on the part of the casting directors.

In an interview with The Observer, he claimed to have "manifested" the role by writing “Hagrid” 5,000 times, essentially treating the casting process like a magical vision board.

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Author: Raven Redgrave
Raven Redgrave (also known as The Writing Raven) is the cohost of the Gothic Therapy YouTube channel. She is the Gothic half of the channel, while her husband, MasteroftheTDS, is the Therapy. They cover pop-culture with a twist. SOCIAL MEDIA: X: http://x.com/WritingRaven2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GothicTherapy
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Some Loser

Superstitious nonsense. “Manifesting” doesn’t do anything except show who’s insane.

James Eadon

Autism. As for this new HP show, they are like Jaguar, with that race-swap. They’ve destroyed megatons of good-will there, and for what? The thousandth gaslighting race-swap, destroying Anglo-Saxon culture.

CleatusDefeatus

I think we’ve reached a point where “they” are incapable of making anything new of substance. So “they” are left with Frankensteining every that was once popular in the past 50 years. Now, since everything that was once popular over the past 50 years was 87% white, “they” have no choice but to replace a few characters with the quotas that are now required.
Since we’ll never anything new anymore, we’ll always have Latino wookies, black Alexander Hamilton’s and gaywad “Jaws”. That’ll be the new, undeserved norm for the foreseeable future. Box office be damned.

James Eadon

BUT, they lose money doing it, and, when they go broke, what then?