A/N: The 'collected works of filk' is an anthology of songs adapted for the Potterverse. These are *not* song-fics.

Preface: "Travelin' Auror" is based upon the song "Travelin' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks. I've adapted it into a Ginny/Neville song. It's set just after Harry's year have left Hogwarts. In this song Ginny has a weekend job at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade bacause she needs to job to afford her school books. Neville has just became an Auror and the scene is set....

"Travelin' Auror"

"Two days past eighteen

He was waiting for the train in his Ministry greens

Sat down in booth in a pub that's there

Gave his order to a girl with bright red hair

He's a little shy so she give him a smile

And he said 'Would mind sitting down for a while

And taking to me; I'm feeling a little low'

She said 'I'm off in an hour And I know where we can go'

So they went down and they sat on the pier

He said 'I bet you've got a boyfriend but I don't care

I've got no one to send a letter too

Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?'

I... cried.

Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

Too young for him they told her

Waiting for the love of a travelin' Auror.

Our love will never end

Waiting for the Auror to come back again

Never more to be alone

When the letter says

The Auror's coming home

So the letters came from a training camp

In muggle London then Azkaban

And he told her of his heart, it might be love

And all of the things he was so scared of

He said 'When it's getting kinda rough over here

I think of that day sitting down on the pier

And I close my eyes.

And see you pretty smile.

Don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while'

I... cried.

Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

Too young for him they told her

Waiting for the love of a travelin' Auror

Our love will never end

Waiting for the Auror to come back again

Never more to be alone

When the letter says

The Auror's coming home

One Saturday night at a Qudditch game

The rules been read and the anthem sang

And the man said 'folks would you bow your heads

for a list of local Aurors dead.'

Crying all alone, under the stands

Was a quidditch player from the Gryffindor band

For one name read

And nobody really cared

But a pretty little girl

With bright red hair.

I... cried.

Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

Too young for him they told her

Waiting for the love of a travelin' Auror

Our love will never end

Waiting for the Auror to come back again

Never more to be alone

When the letter says

The Auror's coming

I... cried.

Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

Too young for him they told her

Waiting for the love of a travelin' Auror

Our love will never end

Waiting for the Auror to come back again

Never more to be alone

When the letter says

The Auror's coming home. "

A/N: The 'pier' in the song is an invention of mine - it jut's out into the Hogwarts lake from the Hogsmeade end.