St Brutus' Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys is an institution for "mentally subnormal" and violent adolescent males. This was the centre that Vernon Dursley told his sister Marge he was sending Harry Potter to school. Saint Brutus is the patron saint for this school. Whether it exists in the Harry Potter scenario, or was simply dreamed up by Uncle Vernon to hide Harry's true nature is unclear, although as there is no Saint Brutus, it is probably imaginary. He described it as a "first-rate institution for hopeless cases."