Unicity in Hartshorne Corollary II.7.15

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What am I missing in the following:

Let $X=\mathbb{A}^2_k$ be the affine plane over an algebraically closed field $k$, and let $O$ be the origin. Let $\tilde{X}$ be the blow-up of $O$. If $\mathcal{I}$ is the ideal sheaf of $Y=\{O\}$ (with reduced induced structure), then the inverse image ideal sheaf $\mathcal{J}$ of $\mathcal{I}$ under the closed immersion $f:Y\to X$ is $0$. Hence the blow-up of $Y$ with respect to $\mathcal{J}$ is just $Y$ itself, i.e. the strict transform $\tilde{Y}$ is just $\tilde{Y}=Y$. But aren't there then plenty of morphisms $\tilde{f}:\tilde{Y}\to\tilde{X}$ such that $\pi_X\circ\tilde{f}=f\circ\pi_Y$, where $\pi_X:\tilde{X}\to X$ resp. $\pi_Y:\tilde{Y}\to Y$ are the natural maps? Because we can just send $\tilde{Y}$ to any point on the exceptional curve $E\subseteq \tilde{X}$ over $O$.

But then, this would contradict the unicity in Corollary II.7.15 of Hartshorne, so I'm sure I'm going wrong somewhere. But where?

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As you correctly pointed out, the inverse image ideal sheaf $J$ is zero. But this means $$\tilde Y = \operatorname{Proj} \bigoplus_{d=0}^\infty J^d = \operatorname{Proj}(k \oplus 0 \oplus 0 \oplus \dots )= \emptyset$$ because the only homogeneous ideal in $k$ is the negligible one.