It’s good he’s not around to see all this nonsense. Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Earlier this April, Max announced the first wave of cast members joining its big-budget television adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, including John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, and Paapa Essiedu as Snape. The draw of the series, which will reiterate the events of books and movies that came out not that long ago, is that it is purportedly committed to “being authentic to the