I think I have a better interpretation of this line than I did before:
“My great creation—” gasped Voldemort. His voice was high, sounding panicked. “Two different spirits cannot exist in the same world—it is gone, it is severed!
The “great creation” is a ‘pocket world’ where a spirit resides, and can possess anyone who touches a portal to it, and can perceive the world around the portals, and so on. As another feature of not testing the Horcrux system, Voldemort is unaware that it’s limited to one inhabitant—and so when he introduces Hermione, he evicts himself. This is a terrible shock, and gives Harry the drop on him.
This seems viable. The line immediately preceding:
For I would never want you to be deprived of Hermione Granger’s counsel and restraint, not ever while the stars yet live.
This strongly suggests to me that he wanted to make Granger a horcrux (as in, a horcrux for Granger). This helps to pattern match with ‘practising being nice’ but as before, we meet the same confusion: If Voldemort is going to kill HP, why is he trying to make Hermione invincible?
At least if this all ends well, Hermione really will be the stand-out witch of her generation. And the next.
Voldemort is unaware that it’s limited to one inhabitant—and so when he introduces Hermione, he evicts himself.
One obvious possible implication of this is that if Harry did kill Voldemort’s current body with the gun, Voldemort may be permanently dead. I guess we’ll find out in 22 minutes...
I think I have a better interpretation of this line than I did before:
The “great creation” is a ‘pocket world’ where a spirit resides, and can possess anyone who touches a portal to it, and can perceive the world around the portals, and so on. As another feature of not testing the Horcrux system, Voldemort is unaware that it’s limited to one inhabitant—and so when he introduces Hermione, he evicts himself. This is a terrible shock, and gives Harry the drop on him.
This seems viable. The line immediately preceding:
This strongly suggests to me that he wanted to make Granger a horcrux (as in, a horcrux for Granger). This helps to pattern match with ‘practising being nice’ but as before, we meet the same confusion: If Voldemort is going to kill HP, why is he trying to make Hermione invincible?
At least if this all ends well, Hermione really will be the stand-out witch of her generation. And the next.
One obvious possible implication of this is that if Harry did kill Voldemort’s current body with the gun, Voldemort may be permanently dead. I guess we’ll find out in 22 minutes...