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Curious; when I read Professor Quirrel going into "protect the information from Harry Potter" mode for Macgonnagle, I almost immediately thought this was deeper than "I've changed my mind and it is no longer a good day and holyshit he's going to kill us". The overwhelming majority of readers assume he is being sincerely cautious in an effort to save the universe. I was assuming that there was obviously a slightly deeper plot involved, though I hadn't gotten far in thinking about what before I read the suggestions about alternative sources such as the Chamber of Secrets.
(Harry's lecture to Macgonnagle on identity-based strategy actually made me realize something about myself I feel is worth analysis... somewhere. I may or may not get back on that if I figure out if it's worth publishing.)
To me it seemed obvious that Quirrel was just taking the opportunity to isolate Harry from Dumbledore-and-co. He's always tried to make Harry distrust Dumbledore. Now Harry will find them even more obstructionist to his goals, so he will only have Quirrel to go to with his ideas and plans.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next thing we see is Quirrel supplying Restricted books to Harry.
This is definitely true, because he was encouraging Harry in private before setting McGonagall to oppose him.
I think it's more likely that while Quirrell wants Harry to be dependent on him for information, he also doesn't plan on telling him very much. He's keeping Harry away from people who are (relatively) easy to manipulate (see: McGonagall just took Harry at his word and undid his Time Turner lock), and making sure that he's the one with a final say as to what Harry does and does not know.
Insofar as he can, anyway. We'll see how well that works. Quirrell's deflection w.r.t. spell creation was sufficiently obvious that Harry's probably noticed, which in turn means that he'll be making his own plans.