Although the urge was strong, Silvan did not rush to make a move on the Whomping Willow. He only glanced at it from afar a few times before returning to the castle with Neville and Seamus.
After that, he attended classes, did his homework, and tried his best to make up for the points he had lost.
He could not rush...
It had only been a short while since the wand malfunction he had created had nearly torn apart the dormitory. Neither McGonagall nor Dumbledore had fully taken their eyes off him yet.
If he did anything unusual at a time like this, he would be discovered easily.
Silvan had no idea whether the punishment would still be so light if he broke school rules again.
After all, the professors' patience was limited. They might tolerate him once, but not necessarily a second time in a row.
Wasn't that famous expert in magical creatures, Newt Scamander, expelled for raising magical creatures?
Although Silvan did not know exactly what Mr. Scamander had done, or whether he had really only raised magical creatures, keeping the professors' "anger meters" in check certainly could not hurt.
Just like how McGonagall had only deducted twenty points from Silvan that night. A large part of the reason was that she had received the wand with her hair as its core beforehand.
She had seen Silvan's work and knew that he was doing something serious rather than deliberately causing trouble. That was why she had only symbolically deducted twenty points, as a reminder to Silvan.
Fred and George agonized over that for several days.
They simply could not understand why Silvan could smash the dormitory to pieces late at night and wake up half the castle, yet only lose twenty points without even receiving detention.
They had