Anyway, Star Wars and Harry Potter share the same villain: Snoke aka Voldemort.
What?? o.O
Okay, Voldemort is a narcissistic psychopath. Not the cultural trope usage of the word—a literal DSM5-definition psychopath. He’s not merely evil; he literally can not form emotional attachments with anyone, and he has no conscience whatsoever. Plus, he succeeded in splitting his soul such that he can not be killed. And only a single person, by virtue of being singled out by Voldemort himself, was capable of killing him.
Snoke is a stereotypically mustache-twirling bad guy. He’s just similar in that he’s been CGI’d.
After seeing TFA, I was actually really hoping that they would take some inspiration from the Harry Potter novels/movies for the sequel trilogy. What with Luke tracking down ancient locations and artifacts, and Snoke being some ancient villian to somehow rose back to power. I think the later Harry Potter stories (6-7/8) would have made a great basic outline from which to construct Episodes 8 and 9.