No, Tom managed to possess him and speak through him. It hurt them both to the point that neither of them could do much of anything further.
Of course that was a perfect point to let us know what was going on with Tom's simulacrum while he was off possessing someone else, but of course Rowling didn't want us to be thinking of *that*.
It would have been a perfect time for someone to kill, or at least vanish the simulacrum, so that when Harry finally threw him out Tom would have been back to square 1 as in PS/SS. But no, we *couldn't* have that!
Of course Albus might have been afraid that if someone did that, Tom would refuse to be thrown out no matter *how* much it hurt. But he never claimed as much.
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Date: 2008-12-19 09:11 pm (UTC)Of course that was a perfect point to let us know what was going on with Tom's simulacrum while he was off possessing someone else, but of course Rowling didn't want us to be thinking of *that*.
It would have been a perfect time for someone to kill, or at least vanish the simulacrum, so that when Harry finally threw him out Tom would have been back to square 1 as in PS/SS. But no, we *couldn't* have that!
Of course Albus might have been afraid that if someone did that, Tom would refuse to be thrown out no matter *how* much it hurt. But he never claimed as much.