Animagi reproducing?

[SnapesRaven]

No: HPFGUIDX 90610

Good morning!

Don't ask why, but a somehow curious thought has entered my mind... 
Are animagi, while in their animal form, able to reproduce? 
If so, there are even more questions occurring...
a) Would an animagus pregnancy require remaining in the animal form during the whole period? 
a.1) How long whould this period be? The time the kind of animal would take to deliver a cub/whatever or the human span of ~9 months?
a.2) Would the child of two animagi become one as well, or is it still necessary to learn how to change?
b) Do animagi maintain their human gender? I mean, do men always change into male animals, and women vice versa? 

I don't intend to imply any animagus pairings here... I just wonder. 
Of course, it would have been very interesting had both lily and James been animagi, and become the same kind of animal. But as I don't know if wizards are able to determine which kind of animal they become (although I know that Snuffles was apparently a male dog) this is just a thoughtplay.
I was under the impression that - as does Peter - living as an animal can keep animagi safe for many years. So I thought maybe an animagus pregnancy/perhaps even childhood could be safer in times of war. Could it have been a possibility for Lily and James to stay alive or at least hide animal!baby Harry from LV?

Please, tell me what you think!
: )

SnapesRaven





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]