/lit/ - Literature

This more likely belongs to /sci/ than /lit/ but after going through my old school books, the one subject I never really understood was chemistry. The way chemical bonds and how they're described or how the diagrams being drawn in a particular way meant a certain chemical reaction went over my head. I was just told that it was just that way because it is. I never got the logic behind it.

I still don't get what magic realism is. I've read 100 years of solitude and midnight children (albiet long ago). Would something like Harry Potter be considered MR?