As someone who has actually taken the Harry Potter course at NUJS, I would like to differ from OP. The course does not deal with Rowling as an individual, but the narrative itself. Nor does it glorify the characters or the story, or even Rowling's take on it. It is just used as a medium to help us ask questions. There was only one class discussing Rowling as an individual, and that too about her dealing with legal issues and how it could have affected the narrative. The current controversies simply do not have anything to do with what she had already written! On the plus side, the course did deal with issues like contract, family law, economic analysis, criminal law, socio-political aspects including gender rights and discrimination and even critiqued some of the shortcomings of the series itself.

As for Game of Thrones, it is set in a completely different world, where might makes right, compared to the relatively more identifiable world created by Rowling. I am not saying that one cannot make a course out of GoT. If you want to do so, please go ahead. However, one fails to see why it has to done at the expense of another course. So long as nothing hateful or objectionable is being taught in a course, there is room for all the courses that one may come up with. By the way, while you are at it, you may actually request the author to finish the series first!

Incidentally, I have taken other courses offered by the same guy and sought help from him on other issues outside the classroom too. He has never come across as either 'woke-libtard' or 'RW bhakt'. If he has any political inclination, he keeps it to himself at least within the classroom.