As they passed the willow, their legs dragged them up a steep incline. Hogwarts could be viewed in full profile from the mount of this hill. Albus rested at the base of a tree, an unanimated one, on top of the hill. The two sat in silence for a few minutes and viewed the castle. Hogwarts Castle was the largest and most expansive in all the magical world, and for that matter, probably the Muggle world as well. Its turrets reached outwards, kissing the clouds below the sky. Its huge walls circumvented its circumference around a river of water, and beyond that river was a large shimmering lake. The structure of the building was composed of uncountable large cylindrical constructions, bricked with dark stone and topped with a cone roof comprised of brilliant blue slabs. The largest of these cones sat close to the middle, and it was in this chamber that Albus had his abode. If he focused on the building well enough, he could spy the window of the old headmaster's office, where he had chosen to spend his remaining days. A menacing cloud above signalled it was time to move from this spot. Unwilling to get wet, Albus asked Ligo if he had ever apparated before. He replied that he had not. Albus told him to hang on and rested his hand on his shoulder. Ligo felt as if the hand pushed him, though, for a second, his body was in stasis; in the next instant, he was inside the castle at the entrance. He was overcome with a sense of giddiness and dizzy light headedness before predictably vomiting on the marble entranceway. Albus sighed, but before he could call for a cleaner, someone appeared from behind them to clean the putrid mess with a damp cloth and bucket.