The Many Uses of Bamboo Chopsticks

"What's this shed for?"

Draco stood inside it, his eyes full of confusion.

"Draco, how's your physical fitness?"

Luo Bin answered with a question of his own.

"Huh? I've been training for almost two months. I'm doing all right!"

"Good. Here, take these!"

"Are these... wands?"

They were two bamboo sticks, thick at one end and thin at the other. The thick ends were square, the thin ends round, and they were about as long as wands.

"They're called chopsticks. They come from the distant East, and like knives and forks, they're used for eating. But they have other uses too. Let me show you!"

Luo Bin took out two bottles, one of mung beans and one of red beans, mixed them together on a plate, then used the chopsticks to move the red beans to an empty plate on the right and the mung beans to one on the left.

His hands moved so fast that Draco could only stare!

After sorting dozens in one go, Luo Bin stepped aside. "Want to try?"

"They're just wooden tweezers. How hard can it be?"

Draco grabbed the chopsticks and jabbed them into the middle plate. After a good deal of fumbling, he had moved neither red beans nor mung beans to the other plates. Instead, beans were scattered all over the floor.

Luo Bin waved his wand, sending every bean back to the large plate in the middle. "Draco, you're holding the chopsticks wrong. Move your hand up and grip them a third or a quarter of the way down. Yes, right there."

"The chopsticks enter through the web of your hand and extend past your middle finger. Your index finger presses down from above, your thumb presses down, and the first joint of your middle finger pushes up. Keep those