Did you know that if you remove a human heart from the meatyfleshbones, it will continue to beat for up to two minutes? And here I was thinking us necromancers were special.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

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apparently it can go on for a lot longer than that if placed in saline solution and given oxygen

Why do you know this?

i’m allowed to have hobbies

Snakes will do this too. 

Eels can continue to move hours after death. And I don’t just mean that they’re good at not dying, I mean you can kill an eel and chop it up and the pieces of eel will try to move around.

Really, though, any organ can last awhile if placed in saline and oxygenated. That’s basically lousy blood, after all.