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Hurahdin täysin tähän uuteen harrastukseen.

Hurahdin täysin tähän uuteen harrastukseen.
I got completely hooked on this new hobby.
From Lesson 320:Verbs of focus and reaction (+ illative)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Hurahdin täysin tähän uuteen harrastukseen.

Why is 'this new hobby' in the illative case (tähän uuteen harrastukseen)?
The verb hurahtaa (to get hooked on, to fall for) is a verb of reacting and committing. Just like keskittyä (to focus on) or suhtautua (to react/relate to), it requires the thing you are reacting to or focusing on to be in the illative (the "into") case. In Finnish, you get hooked "into" a hobby.
Is the verb hurahtaa formal or informal, and what is its exact nuance here?
It is a colloquial, highly descriptive verb. While it can literally mean a quick, swooshing movement, here it is used metaphorically to mean suddenly becoming wildly enthusiastic or obsessed with something. It is very similar to saying you "went crazy for" a new fad or "fell down the rabbit hole" in English.
I always forget how to decline words like uusi. Why is its illative form uuteen?
Adjectives and nouns ending in -si (like uusi, vuosi, vesi) usually have a stem where the -si changes to -te- before adding case endings. This makes the stem uute-. When we add the illative ending -en, we get uuteen.
Why does the ending of harrastus change to -ukseen in this sentence?
Words ending in -us or -ys (especially nouns formed from verbs, like the verb harrastaa becoming the noun harrastus) change their final -s to -kse- before most case endings are attached. Thus, the stem becomes harrastukse-, and adding the illative ending -en gives us harrastukseen.

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