Animagi reproducing?

[Diana Walter]

No: HPFGUIDX 90806

> Dave wrote:
> > Another question occurs to me: Assuming the theories that Sirius 
is
> > gay are correct, is he still gay as a dog, or might he have 
mated with
> > a bitch (a canine one, not Umbridge)?
> 
> Sawsan now:
> Ok that was good! I think as a dog he might have gone either way,
> considering he was in prison for such a long while as well. One of
> those things that make you go hmmmm.


Wheee! Gay!Sirius!

These posts got me thinking a bit about the effect Animagi and their 
animal forms have on each other. Harry compares Sirius' laugh to a 
bark on multiple occasions, and in GoF (lessee here...522 US 
paperback) notes that he's gnawing on his chicken leg in "a very 
doglike way". Now, somehow I doubt Sirius did that before he became 
an Animagus. More likely it got incorporated into his behavior over 
time as he got more experience being in his alternate form.

So, anyway, you can debate the nature of homosexuality all you want, 
but whether it's behavioral, neurological, genetic, or whatever, it 
DOES exist in animals (a very interesting recent article on the 
subject can be found at 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.html). It also isn't 
unreasonable to suppose that any trait an Animagus' animal form has 
is fair game for being transferred to the human form. What I'm 
suggesting is that it wasn't necessarily Sirius who started out gay, 
but Snuffles.

Then, of course, it would only be a matter of time. 

I suppose one might argue that, in the Pensieve scene (which is 
where a good amount of the canon support for Gay!Sirius came from 
originally, IIRC), WPP had been Animagi for less than a year, which 
just doesn't seem like enough to completely reverse a person's 
sexuality (assuming he had been straight to begin with). Point 
taken. But by then he did already have that barklike laugh. Also, 
it's not like he was out and flaming or anything--he was just paying 
more attention to boys than girls.

Yes, I think I like this idea.
                                            --daw