A Character Analysis Of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone One of the major characters in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is Hermione Granger. She becomes friends with Ron and Harry and plays an important role in the plan to save the sorcerer’s stone from the villain, Voldemort. Although Hermione Granger is very unpopular during her first year in school due to her know-it-all attitude, she is a passionate, intelligent and obedient character who follows orders. Hermione’s character can be described as passionate because she cares about Gryffindor and is into reading books a lot. In her first encounter with Harry and Ron, she tells them that she has read all the course books and knows them by heart and has even gone an extra mile to cover extra books (Rowling,84). Hermione tells harry, “I know all about you, of course- I got a few extra books for background reading and you are in Modern Magical History and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century” (84). Her passion for books is clearly demonstrated in the way she talks about her reading. In addition, she is passionate about Gryffindor winning the house cup (Rowling, 124). She tries to keep Harry in check to ensure he does not ruin their chances of winning. Hermione’s intelligence is revealed in her witch skills throughout the book. During her first encounter with Harry and Ron, she says that even though she doesn’t come from a family of magic, she has tried a few spells which have all worked (Rowling, 84). She was also the first person in their transfiguration class to excel. It is noted that when the lesson ends, “only Hermione Granger had made a difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile” (Rowling, 107). Hermione was also able to discover that the dog they saw locked up in the forbidden corridor was guarding something, because it was standing on a trap door and she was the only person who ma...