Hermione Granger

Each and every person acquires information differently, and this is because all of our learning styles differ. As Kathleen McWhorter states in Successful College Writing, “each person learns and writes in a unique way” (32). It is easy to determine what learning styles you may have, and not every person is the same, the author J. K. Rowling expresses a learning style in each of her characters in the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, one of the main characters, Hermione Granger, can be characterized as an independent learner in this book because throughout the book she can be seen learning how to do magic on her own time, reading books on her own to figure out who important people are in the magic world, and she also figures out how to read a spell and uses her own logic to solve a mystery.

In Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone, Hermione Granger shows how she uses her independent learning styles in many ways. Kathleen T. McWorter defines independent learning styles as “preferring to work and study alone, and tending to focus on the task at hand rather than on the people around them” (37). Hermione displays this independence when she is on the train to Hogwarts when she meets Ron Weasly and Harry Potter for the first time. Ron tries to practice doing magic on his pet rat Scabbers, when his spell wasn’t spoken

Hermione explained “I got this out of the library weeks ago for a bit of light reading” (219). She was explaining that she had read a book on the train to Hogwarts about a man named Flamel, when she soon discovered that he was the only known maker of the Sorcerer’s Stone. As McWorter explains in Successful College Writing, and independent learner tends to study the task at hand, this is exactly what Hermione displays in finding the importance of Flamel, and connecting him to the Sorcerer’s