How to use the Explore Page

The Explore page allows you to delve into your selected Event and presents you with all the information and resources from the Lexicon related to your selected event.

Characters and Settings Tab - Lists the Principal Characters, Setting, and Timeframe of the Event. The Links also allow you to do a further search of the Portkey for those items.
Location in Canon Tab - Tells you which page in the books you can find the Event.
Readers' Guide Tab - Takes you to the Lexicon's Reader's Guide for staff commentary on that particular chapter.
Timelines and Calendar Tab - Displays the Timeline for that particular event, as well as timelines for related events. This tool will help you put the Event in perspective by showing you the other events that occurred at about the same time. You will also find links to Day-by-Day Calendars in the Lexicon.
Image Gallery Tab - Displays images associated with the entry you are exploring, as well as artist information for the said images.
Related Resources Tab - Displays links to other tools that may be of interest to you, including JKR quotes from our sister site, Accio Quote!
Reference Tools Tab - Displays links to the entry, tags, and copyright information. You can also add tags to an entry using the link in this tab.

Tagging events

Do a search and pick an event you want to tag.
Click on the event citation (ie: SS: chapter 11, pp. 181-182)
Click the "Reference tools" tab, and under the staff tags look for "You have not created any tags for this record. Would you like to tag this?"
Click "tag this," and a box for tags will appear.
Type your tags, separating them with commas. Spaces are allowed. For example, I tagged Chapter 12 of Book 1 with: longing, love, memory, life, death

Marking favorite events

Do a search
Click on the gray heart for every event you want to bookmark. If it turns red , it has been saved to your account.

Created 6 May, 2007; last updated 7 May, 2007.