Garreth winced. For a split second, he thought Azura was going to fall! What a great first impression that would have made on the poor girl. He really should be more careful, but at least she wasn't mad at him. In fact, she apologized herself, unnecessary as it was. "It's okay, I'm just easily startled!" he chuckled back at her.

The boy had been rather worried that Azura had seen him make a fool of himself in the common room, but apparently, she'd only seen his 'heroics' versus the Puffs alongside Jace. "It's very nice to meet you too, Azura!" he used her name, as doing so was often helpful when it came to remembering the names of people one recently met. "Thank you, I tried my best. I've almost gotten the hang of the knockback jinx already!" he was quite proud of his accomplishment, even if by most standards, it wasn't all that impressive.

"Speaking of those pygmy puffs.." he remembered. "Didn't you fall or something? Is your nose okay?" He hadn't noticed her fall, but he'd seen her nose bleeding, and he recalled being rather shocked by an injury that serious having been inflicted by some puffs. Of course, he had hurt his knee in the chaos, so he understood. He did hope the girl was alright. They had all had a rather rough start to the year, and it was probably a lot to take in for every student, let alone the first years! Garreth was luckily spared homesickness of any sort, but he was certain that if he was as homesick as Rachel, for example, the events of the first few days at Hogwarts would only serve to make it worse. He hoped the professors or the headmistress would do or say something to ease their worries about the coming term.

"Lose your friend?" Garreth sounded rather horrified. That was possible? You could just up and lose your friends? What could possibly make something as horrible as that happen? "What do you mean?" it didn't even occur to the oblivious boy that she may not want to discuss it. What could possibly cause someone to LOSE a friend? What a terrible thought! He didn't wish to dwell on it.