The Hut of Baba Yaga. Yet Rowling concentrates not on the fairytale but on what came immediately before. The fact that she has been seriously depressed and desperately short of money are defining factors for her. She is also aware that without that failed marriage in 1993, there would be no Jessica and possibly no Harry. Life does not come in a neat package, I say, and she pounces on this.
People do want life to be neat.
That is undoubtedly true. I love that. Life is not supposed to be neat. And it's a comfort. It's a comfort to all of us who have messed up.