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Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).
This was touched on in an earlier thread, but never really answered, and it's something that I feel deserves it's own thread, if not a FAQ.
There seem to be two ways to interpret 'Share Spells' as it's written for a familiar.
The first way "A wizard can cast spells on his familiar that normally have a target of 'you'. He may also cast spells upon the familiar that would normally not affect that type of target."
Example - Wizard can cast 'shield' on the familiar, normally has a target of 'you'. Wizard may also cast 'enlarge person' on familiar, even though familiar is not humanoid.
The second way "A wizard may cast spells on his familiar if they have a target of you. Only spells that have a target of 'you' will disregard the creature type of the familiar"
Example - Wizard may cast 'shield' on the familiar, normally has a target of 'you' but cannot cast 'enlarge person' on familiar because it does not have the target of 'you'
Is there an official ruling on this somewhere? I'm very interested to see what people have to say about it, because it would greatly affect the utility of the familiar one way or the other.