Urbanto

Your H-1 visa has no bearing on the amount of time left on your H-1 status and USCIS doesn't keep count of it in specific either.
Your H-1 times in the US starts from the moment you cross the international border into US. So for example if your H-1 status was approved for 2 years while you were out of the country and you went to US consulate, got H-1 visa stamped but then decided not to travel to US at all, those 2 years could still be used for the next H-1 petition.
 
Once you're in the US, any time you travel outside the US, even for a 1 day could be recouped by you later on, but you'd have to keep track of your travel history.

Your personal situation aside and sticking to the original question, if one were to put themselves in a consular officer's mind, it can go couple of ways; either a flat out denial even before reaching to the point of looking at who's the inviting US person, solely based on CO's judgement that applicant fails to prove her non immigrant intents, OR curiosity piques the interest and CO starts digging further into the nature of relationship b/w the applicant and the US inviting person. That's where the oddness of this whole situation could come into play. However it's highly, very very highly unlikely that consular officer would start looking into your own situation or refer your case to USCIS for investigation. Consular affairs come under State Dept while you as LPR living in the US are now under USCIS. Both these departments are severely over-stretched with their routine workloads and don't have the luxury, nor proper established protocols to go off on such mundane tangents and dedicate their scarce resources to check out apparent anomalies in an individual's background after the dust has already settled. It's more of big fish items e.g organized frauds, terrorism or individual humanitarian cases where these 2 departments come together.
 
So, the worst case scenario would be that either your friend gets denied because she couldn't prove her genuine non-immigrant intents or she gets denied because still, she couldn't prove her genuine non-immigrant intents  😌  She goes back home empty handed, you go back to your empty apartment LOL 😁  (no pun intended).

On immigrate2us.net  (site doesn't exist anymore) there was at least similar case where the applicant had over 20 yrs old CIMT, had an I-601 waiver yet when he applied for citizenship, it was denied only because of that old CIMT but USCIS also told him the denial had no effect on his GC status.

Couple of things to note:
 
For NIV waiver, you don't need to have a lawyer. If at the time of visa interview, the CO determines you're eligible to get visa, they will recommend you for non-immigrant waiver and send your case themselves.
 
Second, for IV, extreme hardship is not the only way to get permanent waiver. You can apply for IV waiver based on the fact that at least 15 years have passed by since the last conviction and there has not been any further blots on your record, plus a strong showing of rehab. That would be 212(h)1(A) Waiver. While 212(h)1(B) Waiver is for extreme hardship path.