On Gimlet: that's more or less what I've told him (And he started doing it last year, before any of the gossip at all, so it's definitely that we share a castle. But I'm sure he'll be worse this time, what with the world cup and all.)
On treating them like students - ah, but you forget I've got more tools at my disposal with students. You cannot take house points from departments (I wish: it'd make for far more exciting meetings), nor can you grade them down.
I can, if I wish to invoke powerful names, sometimes get agreement (Pointing out that Auror Lestrange proposed me for the position has been handy, I admit.) And there's a clause in our charter that says that if I - as the chair of the committee, and the only one independently vetted and appointed - feel that an appointed representative from a department is not acting in the best interest of the programme, I can request their removal and the appointment of someone who is better suited.
But really, that's the sort of thing you can only use in the more dire situation - anything else looks like being a doormat, which is anything but helpful.
(And most of them expect me to be a doormat. Why people forget that Hufflepuff's represented by a badger, and badgers are stubborn and have sharp pointy teeth, I have never understood.)
Re: Private message to Raz
On Gimlet: that's more or less what I've told him (And he started doing it last year, before any of the gossip at all, so it's definitely that we share a castle. But I'm sure he'll be worse this time, what with the world cup and all.)
On treating them like students - ah, but you forget I've got more tools at my disposal with students. You cannot take house points from departments (I wish: it'd make for far more exciting meetings), nor can you grade them down.
I can, if I wish to invoke powerful names, sometimes get agreement (Pointing out that Auror Lestrange proposed me for the position has been handy, I admit.) And there's a clause in our charter that says that if I - as the chair of the committee, and the only one independently vetted and appointed - feel that an appointed representative from a department is not acting in the best interest of the programme, I can request their removal and the appointment of someone who is better suited.
But really, that's the sort of thing you can only use in the more dire situation - anything else looks like being a doormat, which is anything but helpful.
(And most of them expect me to be a doormat. Why people forget that Hufflepuff's represented by a badger, and badgers are stubborn and have sharp pointy teeth, I have never understood.)