Luna Lovegood steadily took in a small amount of air before she twisted the shiny doorknob and entered the vast office. She immediately had her bright eyes set on the wise headmaster, who was sitting on an antique chair with his eyes hidden behind his small glasses as he read a brown leather book intently. "Pleasure to have you here Ms. Lovegood, please take a seat." Luna slowly sat across the bearded man, a kind smile casted upon her fair complexion. "Yes headmaster, I believe that you have summoned here for something important you say?" She asked as she began to tilt her head to the side. Albus Dumbledore elevated his head up with a smile rested atop his lips. "Certainly, Ms. Lovegood. You see, I have sent you here because I have a task for you to accomplish."
"And what may that task be, headmaster?"
"I am sure that you are familiar with this, yes?" He questioned as he lifted his wrinkled hand to reveal a frail-looking necklace, which went by the famous name of Time-Turner. "Very, but what does the Time Turner have to do with me?"
"You know that in under two weeks, a long break will be coming soon?" Luna nodded, listening and hanging onto his unclear words. "For the time being until the end of that break, I'd like you to travel back to January 1942, in hopes of meeting Tom Marvolo Riddle, an old student of mine at that age. You will be in the same year as him and have to become his companion, or if you can his lover, due to his condition of being unable to think of others. He is now known as the Dark Lord, you see ... " He explained to the young fifth year.
Luna bit her lower lip, thinking of all the possible probabilities to happen if she said that one word that could transform her life into a world of perfect confusion and foggy blurs. Tom Marvolo Riddle, the past and more human version of Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
She started to flicker her vivid eyes towards the hopeful man.
"Not to be disrespectful headmaster, but why me? I am really flattered by your choice to choose me and extremely interested into the mission of hoping to change the old-future intentions of this Tom, but has it come to mind that there are many more students to hand this task to. For example, Ginny, who would have been able to give a great first impression, or Harry, who would have─"
She was cut off by a gentle laugh.
"Now, now, Ms. Lovegood, do you not realise? Wizards and witches like Ginny, Harry, and others have the kind of attitudes and personalities that Tom (until now) detests, because they have the hearts that can easily touch anyone else's but Tom's (and I know the young student better than anyone else.) I'm worried that if I sent someone like Ginny or Harry or someone else, it would difficult for them to cope and be patient with Tom's distant and cruel attitude. But you on the other hand, possess a soul of patience, tenderness, and optimism of no kind I or anyone has ever seen, ignorant to your peers' constant taunts and pranks.
You are the only person I trust to be able to hopefully make him rethink things and change. And that is because you believe that everybody has that, whether big or small, part of righteousness in them, even Tom, who was and still feared by others because of his cruelty and insanity. And that is why I feel the need to send you to the time where his madness was at its lowest and safest."
"But headmaster, don't you think it would affect our present?" She asked warily. "Do not worry, Ms. Lovegood. That is my problem to handle, not yours. Now is that a yes or a no?"
Luna Lovegood thought about it once again. She sighed in surrender and smiled at her elder.
"Okay then, if I must."