Inner workings of class initialization... fail?!

gistfile1.java

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public class Weird {

    static class Collaborator {
        private final String someText;

        public Collaborator(String text) {
            this.someText = text;
        }

        public String asText() {
            return this.someText;
        }
    }

    static class SuperClass {
        Collaborator collaborator;

        public SuperClass() {
            initializeCollaborator();
        }

        protected void initializeCollaborator() {
            this.collaborator = new Collaborator("whatever");
        }

        public String asText() {
            return this.collaborator.asText();
        }
    }

    static class SubClass extends SuperClass {
        String someText = "something";

        @Override
        protected void initializeCollaborator() {
            this.collaborator = new Collaborator(this.someText);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] arguments) {
        System.out.println(new Weird.SubClass().asText());
    }
}