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So I'm pretty new to witches and I'm trying to figure out something. A familiar for a witch has spells "known"

Witch's Familiar (Ex)

At 1st level, a witch forms a close bond with a familiar, a creature that teaches her magic and helps to guide her along her path. Familiars also aid a witch by granting her skill bonuses, additional spells, and help with some types of magic. This functions like the wizard's arcane bond class feature, except as noted in the Witch's Familiar section.

A witch must commune with her familiar each day to prepare her spells. Familiars store all of the spells that a witch knows, and a witch cannot prepare a spell that is not stored by her familiar.

I realize that this might be flavor text as opposed to RAW, so I'm asking you guys.

Do witch familiars get new spells known when gaining a level in a prestige class that grants a level in spellcasting?

It would seem to me it would be horrendously expensive if it didn't. Barring finding familiars from other witches to learn spells (and good luck doing that for every level of the PrC), you'd have to buy a scroll of the spell each time. Seems it might be cheaper to release your familiar and bind a new one to get access to spells, correct? Seems to me that 2500 GP (assuming you enter a PrC at 5th) would be cheaper than buying high level scrolls.

So I was looking at the Spirit Whisperer archetype for Wizard and came across something interesting. It appears that if you take Lore as your spirit and, at 5th level, you grab Arcane Attunement, you can get spells to count as Divine.

Arcane Enlightenment (Su): The shaman's native intelligence grants her the ability to tap into arcane lore. The shaman can add a number of spells from the sorcerer/wizard spell list equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to the list of shaman spells she can prepare. To cast these spells she must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell's level, but the saving throw DCs of these spells are based on her Wisdom rather than Intelligence. When she casts these spells, they are treated as divine rather than arcane. Each time the shaman gains a level after taking this hex, she can choose to replace one of these spells for a new spell on the wizard/sorcerer spell list.

While not as useful as the old SLA method of getting access to...say the Mystic Theurge, it would at least allow access to an MT as a Wizard 5/Cleric 1.

Anyone see a problem with this? What other interesting feats or prestige classes could you qualify for?