nitrat665 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 111 - Less Wrong
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Some obvious theorycrafting: (presuming, based on Hermione's resurrection, that Voldemort's plan is for Harry to rule the world): (note: Quirrel did mention once before in Parseltongue: plan iss for you to rule country, obvioussly.)
For the second possibility - If there was anyone Voldemort could have been altruistic to, it's himself, and Harry is sort of, well, him. I could theoretically see how Voldemort in his twisted ways would consider his gambit a great gift to Harry - Harry has Hermione back (and better than original), Harry won't need to bother about Dumbledore while working towards his world domina... i mean, optimization, of course!, and Harry gets a load of cool toys to play with. So if we suppose that Voldemort is capable of limited empathy towards Harry - maybe he did decide to have a Grinch-Heart-Growing-A-Few-Sizes moment and give Harry such a nice, bloody and traumatizing gift? I feel that is more probable than the great Chessmaster Riddle finally making a mistake... though, as someone already mentioned, Dumbledore could have somehow loaded Voldie up with a nice overdose of Bahl's Stupefaction.
p.s. On the second thought, an additional correction. Provided that it was really Dumbledore that killed Draco's Mom, now that Dumbledore is conveniently gone by Voldemort's hand, Harry doesn't need to choose between his friendship with Malfoy and his wise old advisor. This assures me even further that what we observe is an unprecedented act of twisted altruism from Voldemort to his Mini-me.
I also 50% expect, that when Harry surveys the scene, an unbelievably improper voice in Harry's head says "Hey, we've got our primary companion back... and we've got some phat loot!" and then gets silenced with great prejudice.