Yeah, Blondie, you tell yourself that you were doing your friend a favour but the fact is you gone done fucked up. Hawke met an Anders who had willingly turned himself into an abomination. And then, sometime later, he hopped a ship to Kirkwall and met Hawke.
She liked him so much she gave him a cat. It did seem wrong for him to be trapped in the Circle. Ah, Anders, where did it go wrong? My Warden liked Anders.